Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-152) and index.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; 1 CONTESTING POVERTY; A new war on poverty; A new battleground; Key issues and ideas; More research?; 2 MAPPING THE POVERTY PROFILE; Contesting poverty; Setting broad limits on Australian poverty; Mapping the profile of poverty; The limitations of statistical poverty; The meaning of poverty; 3 NEW CONCEPTS, NEW EVIDENCE; Regaining the initiative; Redefining poverty; Deprivation, capability and exclusion; Poverty as accumulated disadvantage; 4 THE CAUSES OF POVERTY; Cause as description; Structural inequalities; Events, combinations and accumulations.
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Saunders argues that as a nation Australia can afford to eliminate financial poverty. The fact that we don't do so is a matter of choice, not affordability - as the experience of other countries demonstrates. In challenging this idea, this book focuses on how looking at poverty differently can help to make a world without poverty a practical reality.